5, 115 inspectors promoted to ASP

Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of 5115 Police Inspectors to the rank of Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASP) II.

A press statement signed by the commission’s Assistant Director Media and Publicity, Mr. Ferdinand U. Ekpe, stated that amongst those promoted were 4628 officers in the General Duties, while 487 were specialists.

The promoted officers, he said, are also those who were successful at the Departmental Selection Board interview, just as all the promotions are with effect from the December 31, 2013.

Chairman of the Commission, Sir Mike Okiro, the spokesperson, said had congratulated the newly promoted officers and admonished them to put in their very best in the discharge of their constitutional mandate of securing lives and property and that they should imbibe the principles of modern policing